Louis Benigne Francois Bertier de Sauvigny

Louis Benigne Francois Bertier de Sauvigny (23 March 1737-22 July 1789) was the Intendant of Paris from 13 September 1776 to 22 July 1789, when he was lynched by a Parisian mob during the French Revolution.

Biography
Louis Benigne Francois Bertier de Sauvigny was born in 1737, and he became a public servant under the Kingdom of France, being appointed Intendant (royal representative) of Paris on 13 September 1776. He obtained provisions for the Royal French Army through controversial means, angering the people of Paris, who were suffering due to famine during the 1780s. He was accused of stockpiling food and letting the poor starve, and he was accosted by an angry mob at his country home in Compiegne on 22 July 1789. An armed mob tore the roof off of his carriage, stoned him, and brought him to the Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, where he was shown the head of his father-in-law Joseph Foullon de Doue before being lynched from a street lamp.